Simon Lambert

But you can also get bad landlords, bad letting agents, and bad tenants.

And I think that it takes two to tango.

You have to remember on this.

And I can see this from both perspectives.

But before I'll talk about that in a bit when we go on to the what do we think about this thing?

But firstly, what's in it?

Basically, it's become law today, May the 1st, and it is the biggest upgrade to renters rights in a generation.

Now, the big thing here is, firstly, it is the end of what's known as assured short-hold tenancies, so fixed-term tenancies, the 12-month tenancies that people commonly sign up to.

It used to be that you signed up to a six-month or a 12-month, but it's more often now you sign up to a 12-month or an 18-month or a 24-month even.

And from this point on,

That won't happen.

Instead, there will be periodic or rolling tenancies that tenants are signed up to and they will be able to leave with two months notice.

So they can give their landlord two months notice.

They don't have to wait a year and then give notice or leave at the end of that fixed term.

They can give notice immediately if they want to.

Although why you would move into a flat and give notice immediately, I don't know.

On the flip side, however, it's going to be a lot harder for landlords to get their tenants to move out.

Landlords need to give four months' notice, but they can also only evict their tenants if they give one of a number of acceptable reasons, such as they're going to sell the property, they want to move into it, they have a family member who wants to move into it, and there are some exceptions for if the tenant is in breach of the agreement,

antisocial behavior in arrears and so on although tenants will be able to run up more arrears before landlords can try to do something about it um there's this end of section 21 no fault evictions these so-called no fault evictions this is basically the legal process that enabled landlords to get rid of their tenants as i said that stopped the

There's also rent increases.